July 10, 2007

Get Smart trailer

There's a trailer for the Get Smart movie coming out in 2008 with agent Michael Scarn (Steve Carell) in the Don Adams role. I love Steve Carell, and because he's in it, it might be amusing. But then again, there's Evan Almighty, so, perhaps not. It couldn't be any worse than Steve Martin's The Pink Panther remake. Or could it?

It sounds like the makers of the film wisely reprised the great Irving Szathmary theme from the 1965 TV series. I guess that was a no brainer. And with so many of these old TV show movie remakes, the old theme songs are frequently the best part. Here it is accompanying the classic opening credits sequence: